The Queen has been presented in person with a special Canterbury Cross for her “unstinting service” to the Church of England over the last 70 years. The 96-year-old head of state held a face-to-face ...

Who helped them when they lay so ill and weak.” When Geoffrey Chaucer wrote these lines in his famous 14th-century ...

Sarah Mullally, the bishop of London, was announced Friday as Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time a woman has been ...

The ceremony is a formality dating back to the Reformation and saw the College of Canons of Canterbury Cathedral meeting to ...

LONDON — Sarah Mullally was named the new archbishop of Canterbury on Friday, becoming the first woman to serve as the spiritual leader of the Church of England, and of the global Anglican community, ...

Former archbishop of Canterbury Dr Rowan Williams summed up succinctly the balance and knowledge someone must have both of religion and current affairs to hold the senior Church of England role. He ...

LONDON (AP) — Bishop of London Sarah Mullally was announced Friday as the next Archbishop of Canterbury, the first time in 1,400 years that a woman has been chosen as the spiritual leader of the ...

Dame Sarah Mullally will become the first woman to lead the Church of England. She was named Archbishop of Canterbury-designate. Her confirmation is set for January 2026. Mullally previously served as ...

Dame Sarah Mullally is named as the first woman Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England's almost 500-year history In her first address at Canterbury Cathedral, she addresses "profound global ...

LONDON (AP) — The only Church of England bishop to publicly demand the resignation of former Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said Wednesday that his departure wasn’t enough to solve the church’s ...

Justin Welby, the archbishop of Canterbury and head of the Anglican Communion, resigned on Tuesday over his handling of a high-profile abuse case. A position with deep Catholic roots, the archbishop ...

Archbishop of Canterbury Rowan Williams, head cleric in the Church of England, has responded to the Episcopal Church’s decision to allow the ordination of homosexual bishops. Saying that a change in ...